US-Russian Crew Picked for One-Year Space Station Flight
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor
Date: 26 November 2012 Time: 07:44 AM ET
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Sunlight glints off the International Space Station with the
blue limb of Earth providing a dramatic backdrop in this photo taken by
an astronaut on the shuttle Endeavour just before it docked after midnight on Feb. 10, 2010 during the STS-130 mission. CREDIT: NASA |
American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch on the one-year space station flight in spring 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016, NASA officials announced today (Nov. 26). They will begin their mission training in early 2013.
The mission will help NASA understand how the human body adapts to extremely long space missions, such as voyages around the moon, to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars, NASA officials said.
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